Yeoman makes creating and maintaining node packages easy with generator-node.

Getting Started

npm install -g generator-node
mkdir exmp && cd $_
yo node

Answer the prompts and get a complete scaffold:

create lib/exmp.js
create test/exmp_test.js
create .jshintrc
create .gitignore
create .travis.yml
create README.md
create Gruntfile.js
create package.json

## Directory Structure

.
├── Gruntfile.js
├── README.md
├── lib
│   └── exmp.js
├── package.json
└── test
    └── exmp_test.js

The Gruntfile’s default task is ['jshint', 'nodeunit'] with nodeunit for testing.